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Lot 26

A rare Meissen dish
circa 1730

25 November 2009, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A rare Meissen dish

circa 1730
Of oblong shape, painted in Kakiemon style with wheat sheaves and scattered indianische Blumen over an elaborate diaper pattern, the reverse painted with scattered flowers, 20.3cm wide, caduceus mark in underglaze-blue

Footnotes

Provenance:
Acquired in 1984

Literature:
Hoffmeister 1999, I, no. 163

Exhibited:
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 1999-2009

Another dish of this shape but with a diagonal decoration is illustrated in the catalogue of Meissen Porcelain from a private collection in Bad Pyrmont (Lemcke 2002, p.75). A highly comparable dish of the same shape but with a diagonal brocade pattern of lozenges and flying fox and squirrel among banded hedges was sold at Christie's London, 10 July 2007, lot 74.

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